YouTube stars rethink Top Gear and MOTD for the Facebook generation
Video makers are creating a new breed of shows covering cars, food, football and more – and turning to platforms such as Snapchat to distribute them
Facebook’s neighbors are losing their homes. What’s being done about it?
As the company prepares to bring thousands of new workers to its Menlo Park campus, advocates say it must do more to help lower-income local residents
Facebook under fire for ‘censoring’ Kashmir-related posts and accounts
Users claim censorship following killing of militant by Indian army – ‘Why is it that only Muslims get blocked?’
Taylor Swift is taking on YouTube, and it won’t be an easy fight
Swift’s protest over Apple Music royalties pushed the tech giant into an unlikely U-turn, but the latest battle against YouTube is one she’s unlikely to win
Secrecy, swag and $10k a month: meet Silicon Valley’s gilded interns
Internapalooza provides an inside look at the peculiar cultural initiation to the tech industry: coding, entrepreneurship and a certain amount of privilege
How the tech industry is exploiting Black Lives Matter
Silicon Valley’s woeful lack of diversity makes its support for the movement feel deeply ironic, and its response to last week’s violence ring hollow
Dallas, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile: should Facebook show violent videos?
Facebook’s live streaming video allows people to broadcast life – and death – for the world to see, raising a new and complex set of ethical questions
Privacy Shield deal lets US tech firms transfer European customers’ data again
After much delay from surveillance concerns, the EU agreed to Privacy Shield, a new data transfer deal that will affect Facebook, Google and other US tech firms
From political coups to family feuds: how WhatsApp became our favourite way to chat
The messaging app already has more than a billion users, including plotters against Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. It is changing the way we communicate – and its level of encryption would make the FBI weep
The truth about Brexit didn’t stand a chance in the online bubble
A political system which abandons facts and a media ecosystem which does not filter for truth asks too much of people
Few news providers will now be liking Facebook
By putting friends and family first, the social networking service is retreating to its core values
Race, politics, travel plans: things Facebook’s algorithm can’t get right
There’s a whole class of information that Facebook thinks it knows about me and is willing to sell – the problem is their data isn’t entirely accurate
Brexit breaks news records as Facebook helps drive leave campaign
Publishers including the BBC, Telegraph and Guardian saw double-digit surges in web traffic around EU vote
US border control could start asking for your social media accounts
US Customs and Border Protection proposal would see Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts requested on landing and visa forms
Zuckerberg and Obama discuss startups, ‘nerd cool’ and Brexit at conference
The president called startups ‘the upside of an interconnected world’ when he joined founders at Stanford University for an entrepreneurship conference Friday